Article: United States: GM is world s least green automobile maker.

Byline: kusumv03

North American car manufacturers are bottom of the sustainability league, according to the largest ever global study of the sector's performance. Asian manufacturers came out best in the survey, headed by researchers from Queen's University Management School in Belfast.

The survey looked at factors such as the volume of greenhouse gas emissions from production facilities and the number of work accidents recorded by a company between 1999 and 2007.

It also looked at how efficiently automobile manufacturers used key natural resources. It caclulated the ratio of sustainable value to sales so that different companies could be ...

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